Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Friend of Darwin winners are typically scientists, teachers, or activists. Now for the first time in 20 years, NCSE's signature award goes to someone completely different: an artist.When NCSE needs icons, avatars, portraits, posters, flyers, web graphics, and other incredible illustrations (all on…
From the Pleistocene of central Florida, it is a mineralized and weathered tusk—whether of a mastodon or a mammoth I’m not sure, but from a relative of the elephant...hence my hint “one to remember.” A further clue was the distinctive cross-hatch pattern characteristic of ivory. Congratulations…
Ever been at a loss to articulate exactly why certain creationist or intelligent design arguments are, well, wrong? Or been afraid to bring up the topic of climate change because you’re not quite sure all your friends are on board? You’ll find some help on both fronts here today. Also, a…
As in parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, we’re having a roundtable discussion of Joseph T. Spadafino’s “Americans’ Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse Is a Failure of Science Education,” posted at (although later withdrawn from) the Huffington Post. Joining me are Ian Binns (elementary science educator…
Anyone familiar with Andrew J. Petto’s decades of service to NCSE—both on NCSE’s board of directors and as the editor of Reports of the National Center for Science Education—will wonder at the news that he is among NCSE’s Friend of Darwin recipients for 2016. What they’ll be wondering…
What is that I can’t even but just huh? If you would be so kind as to leave your most eloquently expressed attempt to identify the fossil in question in the comments section below, then I shall exclaim, “What care for style! What patience of execution! What research for the significant tones of…
As in parts 1, 2, and 3, we’re having a roundtable discussion of Joseph T. Spadafino’s “Americans’ Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse Is a Failure of Science Education,” posted at (although later withdrawn from) the Huffington Post. Joining me are Ian Binns (elementary science educator and…
Is it possible that Donald Prothero, one winner of NCSE’s 2016 Friend of Darwin award, is actually several tiny paleontologists in a trenchcoat? Consider: His website says that he’s the author of “over 35 books.” That he seems a bit uncertain of the exact count is understandable when you start…
Under discussion is the origin of the claim that “we may well suppose” occurs eight hundred times in Darwin’s two principal works, On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. As I noted in part 1, the claim is bogus: in fact, the phrase appears only once in all of Darwin’s…